MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22805, 2 September 1939, Page 20

MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS.

Sir, —I received to-day the annual repdrt of the Meat Producers’ Board, and I should advise all meat producers to study it carefully. They will notice that the members’ honoraria amount to £2400, plus expenses. They will notice also that the accumulated fund is £50,426. They will study the graphs. They will notice that during the whole season from January to May second quality lamb was never more than Jd per lb below first quality—this despite the vast number of seconds killed this season. During the whole of the killing season the works paid id per lb less for seconds than for firsts. An extra Jd per lb for the seconds would have meant in the aggregate a large sum. The works haye been allowed to pocket this money when it should have been paid to the producers to help tide them over a most difficult- season. , Has the Meat Board been doing its job? I suggest that the board cut out the levy for next season and lives on the accumulated fund and also interests it,self in seeing that the producers get a fair deal from the works.—Yours, etc., .. PRODUCER. July 31, 1939.